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Why Palestine solidarity matters at the NDP convention
Why Palestine solidarity matters at the NDP convention
rabble staff | David Mivasair, Libby Davies, Zahia El-Masri, Hammam Farah, and Svend Robinson discuss the importance of Palestine solidarity in the NDP.
Blog
No IHRA
NDP delegates need to stand up for what is right -- not give in to Israel lobby
Sara Rans, Rabbi David Mivasair, Sam Hersh | Two resolutions being proposed at the upcoming NDP convention are integral to the NDP's being an anti-racist and anti-colonial party.
Blog
Why Palestine solidarity matters at the NDP convention
Join live on April 5! Why Palestine solidarity matters at the NDP convention
rabble staff | Join Libby Davies, Zahia El-Masri, Hammam Farah, Svend Robinson and David Mivasair for a discussion on the importance of Palestine solidarity in the NDP.
Podcast
Bangladesh garment workers. Image: Bangladesh Centre for Workers Solidarity. Used by permission.
'How do they go to bed with a clear conscience?'
Marc Belanger, RadioLabour | Garment workers in Bangladesh earn $6 a day doing unsafe jobs. And Canadian companies are at fault. The United Steelworkers are trying to help. Plus more labour news.
Blog
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during his recent virtual meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden. Image credit: Adam Scotti/PMO
Canada doesn't need U.S. permission to call China and bring the two Michaels home
David J. Climenhaga | If we send Meng Wanzhou to the United States to disappear into its penal gulag, Canada will be written off as irrelevant by the leaders of the world's second-largest economy.
Podcast
Image: United Steelworkers. Used by permission.
Helping women miners in Bolivia
Marc Belanger, RadioLabour | Women working in Bolivian mines are subject to violence and sexual harassment while being paid almost nothing. Canada's United Steelworkers are helping.
Blog
Foreign Affairs Minister Marc Garneau. Image credit: Estonian Foreign Ministry/Flickr
Petition seeks details of Canada's role in Haiti amid growing criticism
Yves Engler | A growing number of voices are criticizing Canadian policy in Haiti. On Monday a petition to be read in Parliament will shine a light on the historical roots of the issue.
Blog
Prime Minister Trudeau and U.S. President Biden deliver a joint statement. Image credit: Adam Scotti/PMO
Canada has mere hours to free the two Michaels -- but that would take courage
David J. Climenhaga | The two Michaels are pawns in a great game played by two haughty imperial powers that care little about Canada or Canadians.
News
Health-care workers in South Africa receive COVID-19 vaccine, February 2021. Image credit: GovernmentZA/Flickr
Wealthy countries must share COVID-19 vaccines with poorer ones
Karl Nerenberg | A new report looking at the inequitable worldwide distribution of vaccines points its finger at Canada as typical of "unseemly and unfair vaccine grabs" by wealthy countries.
Blog
Free Palestine Protest on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, 2014. Image credit: Tony Webster/Flickr
What Canada could do to show leadership on Palestine
Jonathan Kuttab | If Canada is serious about promoting justice for Palestine, it needs to break out of the conventional paradigm and seek out a policy based on its own principles and ethics.
Columnists
Mohammedou Ould Slahi. Image credit: International Committee of the Red Cross/Wikimedia Commons
Guantanamo prisoner's story shows legacy of stigmatization from war on terror
Monia Mazigh | The infamous Guantanamo Bay prison was designed to be a no-man's land where torture can be carried out with total impunity and where the stigma applied to detainees will haunt them forever.
Blog
Free Palestine Protest on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, 2014. Image credit: Tony Webster/Flickr
Israel lobby continues undercutting the left with attacks on progressive internationalism
Yves Engler | The reaction to an upcoming event that NDP MP Niki Ashton has organized with former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn suggests Israel lobby groups fear progressive challenges to the status quo.
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